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Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007

I had a scare last Friday when I thought that some pages in an application that I had already deployed to a production SharePoint site were failing due to a large number (3300+) of items in a list. Turns out that it wasn’t the problem, but it’s worth understanding that the party line says that there shouldn’t be more than 2000 items in a list container. (By container, we mean the root of the list or any folders contained within it.)

Once you’ve exceeded the 2000 item limit, you may see this message on the list settings page (preceeded by an ominous red exclamation point):

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